WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (6-20-26) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.840 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.920 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.399 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.560 the fifth. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.080 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.119 Here we're going again. We get right running back. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.280 To get him on the show called eight six, six, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.079 nine eighty seven two five seventy, and be sure to 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:26.880 follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:28.840 David Vasselas. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.400 Welcome the Dodger Talk. David vasse with you until the 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.600 top of the hour after the Orioles survive the Dodgers 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.920 by a final score of three to two. We have 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.880 phone lines open at eight six, six, nine, eight seven 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:45.360 two five seventy. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.320 Jose Moto will join us in fifteen minutes. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.120 We'll get his thoughts on why Trevor Rodgers was able 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.520 to shut down the Dodger offense for six innings tonight. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.160 You heard Dave Roberts talk about how Rogers attack the 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:00.800 Dodgers with the fastball. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.160 Well, the Dodgers are one of the. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.240 Best fastball hitting teams in baseball, and for whatever reason, 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.920 they just couldn't pick it up tonight because Tommy Edmund 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.679 was the only Dodger that had a hit off of 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.479 Trevor Rodgers tonight. Trevor Rodgers took a no hitter into 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.959 the fifth inning until Tommy Edmond singled with two outs 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.600 in that inning. So interesting night that the Dodger offense 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.280 couldn't get it going against Trevor Rodgers. But nonetheless, it 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.479 says a lot about the Dodgers that even with all 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.520 that being said in the ninth inning, they could have 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:42.479 very easily just folded the tents and walked away quietly. Tonight, instead, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.600 led by Shoho Tani's home run, they weren't going to 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:51.080 go away quietly. They showed the Orioles what it's like 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.240 to play the back to back World Series champions, a 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.080 team that is still pushing forward, coming into tonight with 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.440 the best record in baseball. The Dodgers got to Ryan 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.760 Helsley last night. He blew his first save of the 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.720 year last night. Tonight they ran Andrew Kittridge out of 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.360 the ninth inning. The Dodgers were hitting a lot of 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.840 balls hard, including Andy Pajez his rocket to left center 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.600 field that Taylor Ward made an incredible catch on. Or 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.959 The Dodgers are sending this game at the very least 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.640 to extra innings, if not winning it in the bottom 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:27.560 of the ninth innings. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.360 So that was a huge play. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.160 As it turned out in the ninth inning after Sho 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:38.120 Haotani sparked the rally with his sixteenth home run of 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:42.120 the year, a home run that was a rocket to 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.280 the right field pavilions. And I have said this and 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:51.000 I will say it again, Jo Haotani is the greatest 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.239 player on the planet. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.480 And the Dodgers have a lot of great players on their. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:03:00.640 Team, but there is something about his presence that makes 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:06.640 those guys believe that they are invincible, that they can 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:12.480 overcome any deficit, no matter how many outs they have 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.400 left in a game, if they can just get that 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:20.480 guy up. And to me, he gave them confidence again 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.680 in that ninth inning that, okay, I'm not giving away 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.880 at bats. You better not give away at bats. And 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.840 that's exactly what took place in that ninth inning. Also, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.880 some bad Orioles defense in the ninth inning. You can't 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.240 tell me a few of those guys didn't realize where 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.560 they were at Dodger Stadium with fifty thousand fans bearing 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.000 down on them. In the home of the back to 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:51.280 back World Series champions because Kobe Mayo on that routine 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.680 chopper by Mookie Betts. Nine out of ten third basemen 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.800 make that play and MOOKI was hustling up the first baseline, 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.760 and I thought it was really cool as that extended 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.320 review challenge was happening in New York, that the fifty 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.280 thousand fans here at Dodgers Stadium in the ninth inning 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:10.200 were chanting. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.080 Safe, Safe, Safe. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.960 Maybe it's that World Cup fever in LA that sparked 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:20.400 that type of chance, but certainly cool atmosphere at Dodgers 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.800 Stadium and Tommy Edman hitting a rocket to right field 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.320 that Leote Taveres couldn't come up with. I mean it 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.520 was in his glove, it was out of his glove. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.480 He was handcuffed, and he kind of felt like tom 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.719 Yedman was going to do something good in that at bat, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.880 and he certainly did to keep the line moving, and 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.400 the Dodgers were one runaway from tying the game, Mookie 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.520 ninety feet away. And I guess that's where you know, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.840 we sometimes talk about the good, the bad, the ugly, Well, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.719 the ugliest part of the game tonight was Kyle Tucker's 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.960 last at bat. I mean even Alex Freeland had a 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.200 better at bat than Kyle Tucker did in the ninth 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.240 inning against Cano. I mean that was atrocious. He was 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.880 over fortnite with three strikeouts. And it's becoming harder and 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.040 harder to ignore that Tucker is hitting two thirty eight. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:20.320 Has severely underperformed in his first few months as a Dodger. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.240 And I don't know if it's fair or unfair, but 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.640 the fans in the stairwell are talking about sixty million 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.840 dollars to this guy. And that's what you sign up 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.560 for when you sign a contract like that. If you 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.200 don't want the smoke, don't sign a contract like that 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.719 on a team that is trying to three peat because 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.520 the expectations are higher than ever. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:48.200 And like I. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.479 Said on the last road trip, there is no snapping 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.280 of the fingers that I believe is going to happen 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.920 between now and the All Star Break for Kyle Tucker. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.600 I don't see Kyle Tucker turning his season around until. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.240 After the All Star Break. That's just a fact. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.239 I have seen a lot of guys come through Dodger 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.560 Stadium with a lot of expectations with a lot of 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:21.479 contract on their books, and when you see something like this, 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.320 it doesn't just snap out of it overnight. I don't 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.960 see this changing until the second half of the season. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.320 Am I ready to bury Kyle Tucker as a Dodger. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.160 Absolutely not. Am I going to compare him to Michael Conforto, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.720 Absolutely not. But what I will say the parallels between 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.440 Tucker and Conforto are and Confordo admitted this to Ken 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.000 Rosenthal a few weeks back, is that he looks around 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.280 the room and he's trying to compete with the Otani's, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.960 the Freeman's, the ta Oscars. And I really hope Kyle 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.000 Tucker is not trying to do that, because that would 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.960 be a repeat of a mistake of a guy like 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.839 Michael Conforto, who signed a one year contract for seventeen 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.840 million dollars and it never it never turned out the 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.080 right way for him for the Dodgers in his short 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.960 time with them. So look, Kyle Tucker can go under 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.440 the radar all he's want, all he wants. He's hardly 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.720 ever at his locker when the media is in there. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.880 He hardly does any interviews. And look, he's a guy 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.520 that wants to go under the radar doesn't say a lot, 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.440 but the reality is people are noticing. It's hard not 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.400 to notice. Eight six six eight seven two five seventy 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.120 is the phone number. Let's go out to Lou, who 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.640 was at Dodger Stadium tonight. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.200 Hi, Lou, you're on Dodger Talk. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.440 Hey, David, thanks for taking the call. He took all 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.200 my thunder because everything I was thinking about saying about 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.880 Tucker he said, it looks like he's just it's too 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.240 big for him. David, and Scott Boris didn't do him 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.800 any favors by giving him that sixty million dollars contract. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.600 Scott Boris is not why Why does everybody blame Scott Boris? 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.720 Scott Boris is a care about how much? 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:08.920 All right? 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.760 Whoever gave him the contract? It's too big for him. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.520 I don't think he can handle the big lights here 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.080 in LA. I don't know. It just seems like you 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.880 tell me you were there that lasted bad? Did it 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.040 look competitive to you? 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.240 I've seen better cuts under a band aid. I'll put 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:25.800 it that way. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.080 There you go, And look, I'm not trying to beat 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.080 on him when he's down. But I don't know. I 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.240 just don't see. I don't you know, he's got a two. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.400 He can opt out after two years, and it's four 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.520 year contract. It wouldn't surprise me if he gets out 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.880 of LA after two years, it. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:49.320 Wouldn't surprise me either. But I will say this, I'm 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.840 not ready to just bury Kyle Tucker. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:52.240 Yet. 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.560 It looks ugly. It hasn't looked good at all. He's 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.960 had a couple of moments, but that's it. He hasn't 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:02.600 been able to put together week ten games, fifteen games. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.800 But Louis, you say all this and then he comes 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.800 up with a big hit in October and all of 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.720 a sudden, it's a moot point. So that's why I 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.160 would be very careful to be able to say this 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.120 is too big for him until it's not. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:15.560 So. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.200 Like I said, I saw Strawberry here and it was 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.160 a completely different situation. I get that, but at the 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.880 time it was the biggest contract in baseball. He only 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.560 hit five home runs the first half of ninety one, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.000 and then hit twenty three home runs in the second 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.840 half after he kind of got his bearings. And I 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.080 think we should give Tucker that grace period as well, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.440 especially since his teammates have picked him up in the 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.480 first half of the year, so I'm expecting a much 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.000 better second half from Tucker. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.000 All right, maybe you're right, but I'm gonna go on 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:54.080 record Andrew Friedman's made a lot of great moves, but 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.720 this may go down as the worst free agent signing 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:57.720 he's ever done. 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.440 All right, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.000 at the end of the year, Lou I don't think 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.480 you could say that just yet. Eight six six seven 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.400 two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:09.040 to Westlake. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.560 David. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, David. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:13.920 I'm doing okay, DV. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.040 Thanks for taking my call. Man, I gotta. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.920 Agree with you. I love this team so much. And man, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.680 the way they show fight. They're nine games up in 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.080 first place and bade you not quit until the very end. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:32.199 But but Kyle Tucker, Man, that guy swing is so ugly. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:33.319 But I have a solution. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.360 I think tomorrow morning he needs to wake up and 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.200 feel a little inflammation in his left big toe, and 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.000 he needs to go. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.199 On the IL. He needs to go on to al 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.760 We need to bring up Kibs. See what that kid 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.280 can do. And and mister Tucker needs to stand in 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.200 the corner of the dugout and face the wall and 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.160 go on a little time out because that guy, he 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:54.880 needs a little break from baseball. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.120 Yeah, and if that break is coming out, trust me, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.160 that break is coming at the All Stark And that's 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.320 when I believe he'll reset his season and figure things out, 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.360 because in the middle of the year, when you're trying 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.319 to change, you know different things. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:10.199 And Nomar, I. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.880 Think you've heard what I played, what Nomar said, and 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.120 diagnosed with Tucker just his stride. I talked to Aaron Bates, 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.320 the Dodgers hitting coach, and he said, that's what the 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.160 Dodgers are working on with Tucker, but it's not an 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:27.319 overnight fix. And those pitches that he was swinging at 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.120 in the bottom in the dirt, I mean, like I said, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.320 Alex Freeland had a better at bat in the ninth 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.880 inning than Kyle Tucker, which you know is saying something there. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.800 All right, David, let's talk it after the All Star break. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.160 Okay, all right, one last thing, DV about Alex Freeland. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.360 I don't understand. I don't understand how you pinch hit 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.719 for a guy who hit the. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.840 Game tying home run in game seven of the World 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.600 Series for Alex Freeland. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:55.320 I don't understand. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.520 I think that's Dodgers manager Dave Roberts overthinking again. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.559 I think that's analytics coming too much into play. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.520 Well, yeah, you're going with the platoon. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.800 Rojas is one of the best right handed hitters against lefties, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.840 and he wanted to get Freeland in there against the 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.160 righty from the left side. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.360 So that was the thinking right there. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.679 But I wouldn't mind the loss, taking that at beat 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.040 at at that at bad either. Who can argue that. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.920 Thanks for the phone call, David, appreciate it. Let's go 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.840 out to Michael and Northridge. You're on Dodger Talk. How 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:29.600 are you doing, Michael? 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.000 Hi, David, I'm doing great. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:32.480 How are you? 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.640 I'm great? How can it be bad? 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.720 The Dodgers lost for the first time on this homestand 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.800 they got the second best record in baseball? 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.080 Yeah, I know, what's what's going through your mind right now? 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.800 What I saw? I know what's going through your mind 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:53.280 right now? 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:54.839 What's going through my mind? 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:57.200 You know? 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:58.600 Like that? 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.280 You know, we got the best working in baseball and 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.760 then we lost his home standy, you. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.920 Know, Okay, thank you for the phone call. Have a 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.280 great rest of your Saturday night. Man, if that guy 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.240 was in my head, I'd be in real trouble. Eight 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.120 six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.000 phone number. I mean, what am I supposed to do 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.240 with that? Tonight's game brought to you by Modello Modello 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.280 The Mark of a Fighter. All are welcome. 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I know 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.120 the ninth inning was exciting and the Dodgers never gave 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:12.000 up on that game, But how did Trevor Rodgers pitch 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.840 six shutout innings and allow just one hit to Tommy Yedman. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.600 I'm gonna say that, Dave, he's been paying attention to 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.440 what's happened to the Dodgers. Anthony k faced him back 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.480 in Chicago, and then Sean Neukleman company came in. Then 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.080 you know, well, venable changes planned, so they're just not 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.760 being able to get into good cons against lefties. And 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.800 execute well covering the outer half. I mean Lefty's lab 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.960 with the outer half, you got to protect. Even if 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.520 he comes to be up the fastballs, he's setting something 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.240 up for you and they just has not been able 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.680 to adjust to making better contact. And beyond the point, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.400 not an excuse, but with l will Smith and Telska 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.360 is a different looking min of what comes out to 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.520 facing lefties, no doubt. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.360 Yeah, how about that ride that Miguel Rojas gave. It 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.120 could have been a two run home run that Rojas 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.680 sent to the track back in the seventh inning, and uh, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.520 you know we're in the sixth inning. Even even Rogers 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.160 was a little concerned there. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.960 He was, you know what, going back to the previous caller, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.000 I have to live and die with mcguer rosas and 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.200 that a bat though day, I have to go with 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.200 mcguar Rojas. Alex Freeland is not a proven big league 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.680 player yet. He is not a proven power hitter yet. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.960 If he becomes one, and I know that in that 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.880 bad Wright left the Ottle Carol Hardy throws, I have 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.480 to go to mcgair house and let me just put 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.240 it to you this way. If that's the playoff situation, 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.520 he's going to hit there, it's gonna be Miguel Rojas. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.560 So whatever was going today's head is fine. But and 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.960 I don't only going left to righty matchup. Great analytics, great, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.360 cyur metrics, great, But in that case, in that game 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.520 out there, after his left at bat, I'm going to 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.320 mcguar Rojas. But there's no doubt that, you know, Migie 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.600 knows what he's doing. He actually gave the most detailed 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.600 report he was talking about with the Aaron Bates at 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.760 one point to one of his hitters coming up on 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.000 the guy coming in. And that's why you want to 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.600 I like that on your team because he's ready all 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.440 the time, and certainly I want to see one sea. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.320 Yeah, I agree with you, And I wonder if Dave 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.320 was after last night and the way things went down, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:15.520 if it was Dave trying to allow another growing moment 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.240 the big picture, you know, as the Dodgers are trying to, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.119 you know, not only win tonight's game, he's trying to, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.800 you know, develop some of these guys as well as 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.879 far as the big picture, And I wonder if that 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:30.000 went into his decision to have Freeland come off the bench. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.479 But how do you argue Miguel Rojas, who came up 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.959 with arguably the biggest home run in the last twenty 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:37.640 five years for the Dodgers. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.479 Yeah, exactly. I know the Dodgers to take the approach 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.080 a lot of times, as you know why Freedlom made 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:45.720 the team, and it was pretty obvious with Dodgers that 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.560 we need to see what we have. So, yeah, have 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:48.879 a good point. You there are a lot you know 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.000 exactly how the thinking goes along and the season progresses, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.880 the ever flows of the season, and perhaps that would 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:56.359 be in a moment to say, hey, we trust you 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.359 to do this out there and give your best at 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.360 better and he actually, you know, they're a pretty job 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.240 of just making contact going the other way and trying 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:03.440 to hit a long dround the other way. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.600 He actually had a better at bad than Kyle Tucker. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.359 That's been a topic of conversation tonight, Jose. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.320 It has been. I mean, you know what, on every 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:18.080 point you made, you've been exactly right. And at some 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.399 point Dave Yenier Canoe is not going to give in 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.280 with his fastball. He's not losing that game with a fastball. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.679 It's easy for me to say it from where I 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.760 stand where I sit right now. But Kyle Tucker has 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.040 to understand a little bit more about and he's done 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:34.480 it before in his career. It's not like this is 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.119 anything new for him. That canoe is not going to 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.320 throw anything close. And the more he expands with that 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.040 swing that he has he's trying to find the right 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.280 path forward, the more he's going to go out there 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.119 and just bury balls out of his own Obviously, this 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.160 is not on Kyle Tucker, is not why they lost, 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.359 but that at bat right there you have to force 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.560 Cana who is not even their closer, to put your 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.840 way with something in the zone, not out of the zone. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.960 So hopefully is a learning moment, as he talked about Freeland, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.439 a learning moment for a veteranmploye that he needs to understand 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:04.920 a little bit more about the situations are going to 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.960 continue to find him. Because at some point, as the 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.399 Susans progressing, just took me how many of these moments 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.399 are finding him early and laying the games and with 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.400 the big monster he's got around him, guess what other 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.600 teams are gonna say, get to that guy until the 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:18.960 next on Injustice, we want that guy in the batsac 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:20.160 left you're ready, it doesn't matter. 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.920 Yeah, it didn't seem like he had much of a 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.719 plan in that at bad Jose and h You know, 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.800 for a guy that has a reputation of being extra selective, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.480 nobody has seemed to solve the question, including Tucker himself. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.440 Why is he swinging so early and often in at 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.000 bats more than he ever has in his career. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:44.920 He has to get better with this. I actually went 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.240 down to a little, you know, deeper dive into this 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:53.040 and as of last before this homestand Dave, when he 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.640 had made contact on the first pitch on inside pitches, 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.560 he was one for eleven. Okay, it was a blue 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:03.040 base hit. When Sara Basemon says, so I understand the 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:04.919 need to say, I got some guys around me, I'm 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:06.280 going to go out there and be aggressive. But it's 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.240 got to be aggressive to your point, to your pitch 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.240 and your location. And also he's talked about, you know, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.240 fixing the swing paths, as he told the reporters just 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.560 a couple of days ago. That's all great, but with him, 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.200 it really comes down to pitch selection, which is which 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.960 trich do I feel good with at times even taking 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.959 a two strike approach with no strikes because the situation 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.520 your calls for contact or just a roller or a 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.560 gramvel or longer up the middle and just slowing the 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.040 game down a little bit more. He's good enough and 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.280 he's experienced enough to know that I've done this before, 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:38.639 and I don't need to be in a hurry. It 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:40.840 seems sometimes seems like he's in a hurry, and I 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.639 can see happening that you go out there and you 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:45.800